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1. Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number / the whole executed by George Stubbs, author of "The anatomy of the horse."

Proposals for publishing, a comparative anatomical exposition of the structure of the human body, with that of a tyger and a common fowl : in thirty tables, two copper-plates to each table, 20 inches by 15 : forming six numbers, ten plates to each number / the whole executed by George Stubbs, author of "The anatomy of the horse."
Creator:
Stubbs, George, 1724–1806
Date:
[1802]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 29 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance.

Now publishing in numbers, price 1s. and in monthly parts, at 2s. each, Commemoration of Hogarth by an edition of his works, commenced exactly a century after their first appearance.
Creator:
Jones and Co. (London, England)
Date:
[1833?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. J. Pigot, engraver, and copper plate printer : 11, Fountain Street, Manchester.

J. Pigot, engraver, and copper plate printer : 11, Fountain Street, Manchester.
Creator:
Pigot, James, 1769–1843
Date:
[between 1810 and 1821]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 56 x 84 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The Graphic : 190 Strand, London.

The Graphic : 190 Strand, London.
Creator:
Crane, Walter, 1845–1915
Date:
[1876?]
Physical Description:
1 print : chromoxylograph ; 14 x 10 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Pigot, engraver & copper plate printer : no. 11, Fountain Street, Manchester.

Pigot, engraver & copper plate printer : no. 11, Fountain Street, Manchester.
Creator:
Pigot, James, 1769–1843
Date:
[between 1810 and 1821]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 60 x 78 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. J. Bosford, bookseller : no. 11 Cheapside : furnished lodgings, to let.

J. Bosford, bookseller : no. 11 Cheapside : furnished lodgings, to let.
Creator:
Bosford, J., active 1850
Date:
[approximately 1850?]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 63 x 90 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Charles Skipper & East, engravers, printers : patent ledger and account book manufactuers, St. Dunstan's Hill, London.

Charles Skipper & East, engravers, printers : patent ledger and account book manufactuers, St. Dunstan's Hill, London.
Creator:
Charles Skipper & East (London, England)
Date:
[between 1833 and 1877]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 63 x 90 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Billhead of Richard T. Cussons, bookseller and stationer, Hull, for purchases by Mrs. Maister, Wood Hall.

Billhead of Richard T. Cussons, bookseller and stationer, Hull, for purchases by Mrs. Maister, Wood Hall.
Creator:
Cussons, Richard T.
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 26 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A book token.

A book token.
Creator:
White, Gwen, 1901–1986
Date:
[approximately 1936]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 13 x 16 cm, folded to 13 x 9 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Coates & Yates, artistic printers : 20, Yorkshire Street, Rochdale.

Coates & Yates, artistic printers : 20, Yorkshire Street, Rochdale.
Creator:
Coates & Yates (Rochdale, England)
Date:
[approximately 1890]
Physical Description:
1 trade card ; 13 x 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

11. A. Gotelee, bookseller, stationer, binder and a general printer, Post Office, Oldham : begs to announce that his Christmas Sale will be opened on Tuesday, November 22nd, 1892, and following days, when a choice selection of English & foreign goods, suitable for presents, will be on view.

A. Gotelee, bookseller, stationer, binder and a general printer, Post Office, Oldham : begs to announce that his Christmas Sale will be opened on Tuesday, November 22nd, 1892, and following days, when a choice selection of English & foreign goods, suitable for presents, will be on view.
Creator:
A. Gotelee (Oldham, England)
Date:
1892
Physical Description:
1 sheet : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George Gregory Smart, Yale BA 1977

12. Proposals for publishing by subscription, original poems : with translations from the French, Italian, and Spanish : and a play, in five acts : by Charlotte Nooth, daughter to the late James Nooth, Esq. ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Nooth, Charlotte
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Drawings for Monthly maxims, by Robert Dudley.

No cover image available
Creator:
Dudley, Robert, active 1858–1893
Date:
1882
Physical Description:
[68] sheets ; 25 x 23 cm or smaller
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Proposals for publishing by subscription, twelve engravings of a series of views, of interesting scenes and achievements of the British Army in Spain and Portugal : under the command of His Excellency Lieutenant General the Marquis of Wellington, &c. &c. &c. : from original drawings made on the spot, by Major St. Clair, 21st Portuguese Infantry, and Captain Royal Scotts ; engraved by C. Turner ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1811?]
Physical Description:
3, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Prospectus of a new edition of The Anglo-Saxon annals : with an English translation, and notes critical and explanatory, by the Rev. James Ingram, B.D. ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1822?]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. This day is published, The morbid anatomy of the liver : being an inquiry into the anatomical character, symptoms, and treatment of certain diseases which impair or destroy the structure of that viscus : order 1, tumours, part I, on the Tubera Circumscripta and Tubera Diffusa : in imperial quarto, illustrated by coloured engravings, price 15s. : by J.R. Farre, M.D.

No cover image available
Date:
[1812]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Edward Ryland : copper plate printer in the Old Bailey near Ludgate Hill, London.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ryland, Edwd. (Edward), active approximately 1762–1775
Date:
[ca. 1760]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 27 x 20 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Preparing for publication, Des. Erasimi Rot. Concio de puero Iesu : olim pronunciata a puero in schola Iohannis Coleti Londini instituta in qua praesidebat imago pueri Iesu docentis specie : Editio nova : Londoni, Typis I. et I.B. Nichols, et S. Bentley, MDCCCXV.

No cover image available
Date:
September, 1815
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. On the 1st of February, 1814, was published, no. I, price two shillings, of The new monthly magazine.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([4] pages) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. Ashbee and Dangerfield, lithographic artists & printers in colors, ornamental designers and engravers on wood & copper : 22 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C.

No cover image available
Creator:
Ashbee & Dangerfield
Date:
[between 1855 and 1860]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 32 x 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. Proposals for publishing by subscription, in the course of the next spring, in one volume quarto, accompanied with seventeen plates, An Account and explanation of the paintings and other ornaments and decorations, discovered in the month of September last on the walls of the present House of Commons : including also, besides the history of these decorations and the building itself, a variety of original particulars as to the ancient state of the City of Westminster, and the Palace and other buildings there : and the principles and history of painting and Gothic architecture / by John Sidney Hawkins, Esq. F.A.A. ; the plates engraven by Mr. John Thomas Smith, from drawings made by himself on the spot.

No cover image available
Creator:
Hawkins, John Sidney, 1758–1842
Date:
[1800]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. Edwin Parson & Sons : fine art booksellers and picture dealers : 45 Brompton Road, London, S.W.

No cover image available
Date:
[1901]
Physical Description:
1 postcard ; 8 x 12 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. Nearly ready for publication, in two volumes ... An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving on copper and wood : with an account of the most ancient engravers and their works, from the earliest period, to the middle of the sixteenth century : comprising observations on some of the first books ornaments with wood-cuts : by William Young Ottley, F.A.S.

No cover image available
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. This day are published, in three volumes, quarto, price £7:7s. boards, illustrated with 74 plates, printed chiefly from his manuscripts, under the direction of a select committee of civil engineers, Reports, estimates, and treatises, embracing the several subjects of canals, navigable rivers, harbours, piers, bridges, draining, embanking, lighthouses, machinery of various descriptions including fire engines, mills, &c. &c. with other miscellaneous papers drawn up in the course of his employment as a civil engineer, by the late Mr. John Smeaton, F.R.S.

No cover image available
Date:
[1812]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (2, [2] pages) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. To be published by subscription, two coloured engravings, with descriptive letter-press, of the procession and ceremony of the installation of the Knights of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, from the drawings by Mr. Frederic Nash.

No cover image available
Date:
[June 1, 1812]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. In the press, and speedily will be published, part I of Archaica, containing a reprint of scarce Old English tracts, with prefaces and notes, critical and biographical.

No cover image available
Date:
[1814?]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([2] pages) ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. Rural sports, a poem, by William Somerville, author of "The Chase" : to be published, by subscription, by R. Ackermann, No. 101, Strand.

No cover image available
Creator:
Somerville, William, 1675–1742
Date:
June 1, 1812
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. Code of health and longevity : the third edition : in one volume, octavo / by the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart.

No cover image available
Creator:
Sinclair, John, Sir, 1754–1835
Date:
[1815]
Physical Description:
2, 3, [1] pages ; 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. F. Dangerfield's improved lithographic & metallo-graphic press : important to printers, stationers, &c.

No cover image available
Creator:
Dangerfield, Frederick
Date:
[between 1866 and 1890]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 26 x 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. Accounts of John Nichols with the engraver Barak Longmate.

No cover image available
Creator:
Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:
1807-1816
Physical Description:
1 v. ([24] p., with blanks) ; 35 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. Temple of Fancy.

No cover image available
Creator:
S. and J. Fuller
Date:
[1825?]
Physical Description:
[4] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. Proposals for publishing by subscription, the History of the Kings of England from the arrival of the Saxons A.D. 449, to his own times, A.D. 1143 : by William of Malmsbury, collated with authentic mss. and translated from the original Latin with a preface, notes, and an index, by the Rev. John Sharpe, B.A. ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Date:
Dec.15, 1813
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

33. Preparing for the press, a new edition of The Saxon chronicle, with an English translation and notes by the Rev. J. Ingram ... : a reprint of that very valuable Romance of Morte Arthur, with an introduction and notes, in quarto ... : "The poeticall exercises at vacant houres of James the Sixt--King of Scotland," edited by R.P. Gillies, Esq.

No cover image available
Date:
[1822?]
Physical Description:
[4] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts